ofjared:

mutemath - reset

dropping thirty bucks (the most i’ve spent on a show since being here??) to see these guys play at stubbs tonight. i’ve been a fan of theirs since i was a sophomore at fsu 5 or 6 years ago, and haven’t seen them live yet. i figure, since i missed radio moscow a few days ago because i was watching the end of the heat/pistons game on my computer (thanks for hitting those free throws, lebron), i can indulge a bit this weekend and cross another name off my list. i hope they play this, and freak the fuck out on stage. though i might have to hop up there and slap one of them if they stomp or knock over a fender rhodes in front of me. not cool. their non-instrumental stuff is pretty sweet and all, but i just think this track, the last one off their self-titled debut, is some next level stuff. i guess you could call it post-rock, but it’s more propulsive and melodic than that genre typically entails. 

i almost saw them my freshman year in college, too! but right before the show, my boyfriend at the time— who i was going to see them with— and i broke up. never got to a show after that. tell me how it is! 

(Source: tyleroakley, via kathleenryan)

nwlatv:

Tiempos modernos 

(via iwantmybearsuit)

thedailywhat:

Wiki Dependency of the Day: Katie Notopoulos is using her Twitter account to catalog the complaints emanating from Millennials worried about how the Great Wikipedia Blackout of 2012 is going to affect their school projects.

[@katienotopoulos.]

thedailywhat:

Photo of the Day: The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart (then Jon Leibowitz) as a young College of William & Mary student moshing at a Dead Kennedys show at Casablanca in Richmond, VA, c. 1982.

Photo by Irish Willis Peele.

[gawker.]

i love everything about this. 

(via bbygrldreamz)

randominternet:

The OCD Chef

from Amazon

cool idea for a bar graph. 

sigh of confusion.

I feel slightly conflicted. But perhaps its one of those problems that will resolve itself with time. 

I volunteer for an organization that works as an independent book review. their mission says that they are completely volunteer, in order to restore the book review sections that have gone missing in many newspapers and magazines (due to recent economic struggles those are usually the first to go). 

but things seem to be changing. 

I recently had quite an upsetting issue with one of my reviews. the feedback i got on future reviews seemed to revolve around reviewing a book you like. and now, i just received an email about fundraising. apparently, we (the organization) gets money from click-throughs on books to amazon and advertising on the website. 

i understand they need to make some money. but won’t relying on readers’ click-throughs to buy books we review compromise the quality of reviews? if a reviewer doesn’t like a book, how likely is it that they will click through our link and buy it? 

to top it off, the email said this fundraising effort will go towards paying contributors and volunteers. thats not a volunteer organization anymore, is it? 

i’m thinking the organization just may be evolving into one that doesn’t really fit my ideals, anymore. 

IF YOU HAVE OR SEE ANY CUTE DIY VALENTINES, SEND THEM MY WAY.

I’m writing a blog post about it for work. 

http://fellowfellow.com/sweet-diy-votives/

also, painting mason jars is quite cute.